As best I understand it, the Great Speckled Bird represents the church of God who will be raptured.
Amen, but there is no Rapture: But the great speckled bird in the Bible
Is one with the great church of God.
When He cometh descending from heaven On the cloud that He writes in His Word I'll be joyfully carried to meet Him On the wings of that great speckled bird.
If you think you are going to be taken away from earth then you are sadly mistaken. You better be here on earth watching, or you will miss the big event so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
1Co 6:2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world?
Psa 149:9 To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.
Ps 36:7 How excellent is thy loving kindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
Lk 13:34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which kills the prophets, and stones them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!
De 32:11 As an eagle stirs up her nest, flutters over her young, spreading abroad her wings, takes them, bears them on her wings:
Is 31:4 For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them:
so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
Is 31:5 As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.
Is 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Jer 12:9 Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, צבוּע the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.
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However, eagles are mentioned in the Bible as being admired for their swiftness, Jeremiah 4:13.great physical power Rev 8:13 and their seemingly endless endurance. Is 40:31 Eagles are one of four dimensions of creation, Rev 4:7; as a messenger of God, Rev 8:13; and a skilled predator. Eagles are also widespread in the Bible for symbolism.Watson, Jeff (2010). The Golden Eagle. A&C Black. ISBN978-1-4081-1420-9.
For example, due to the perceived high level of parental care,
eagles were associated with protection and even paralleled to God carrying the Israelites out of Egypt. Job 39:27
But the Hebrew always elsewhere means
"a bird of prey." Some, because a word near akin to this signifies a finger, render it a "fingered bird";
that is, a bird with talons or claws; like fingers;
the birds : Jer 2:15; 2Ki 24:2; Eze 16:36, Eze 16:37, Eze 23:22-25; Rev 17:16;
come ye : Jer 7:33; Isa 56:9; Eze 39:17-20; Rev 19:17, Rev 19:18
Eze 39:17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come;
gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken,
of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
20 Thus ye shall be filled
at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
Zep 1:7 Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD:
for the day of the LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.
Zep 1:12 And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees:
that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.
Re 4:7 And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was
like a flying eagle.
Re 19:9 And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto
the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.
Re 19:17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice,
saying to all the birds that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together
unto the supper of the great God;
Re 19:18
That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
19 And I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. 
